Girl, 16 Review

Hello there internet!

Today i'm back with another review, this time of the third book in the 

Jess Jordan trilogy by Sue Limb!

I read the first two books in this series years ago and absolutely fell in love with them.

However my inability to finish a series, even if i love it, set in yet again,

and i put off reading this installment for so long, purely because i didn't want to stop reading about Jess and Fred!

As this is the third book in a series, there will be spoiler-y things ahead!

In the first chapter of Girl 16 the single worst thing that could have happened in the series happened: Fred and Jess broke up!

Devastation!

The whole book follows the fall out after the horrid break up and how Jess deals with it on top of having to go back to school after spending such a great summer with Fred.

The poor girl has so much going on for the first term back!

With the break up, Ben acting a little weird, Fred avoiding her, a new substitute teacher, the show she's been looking forward to all summer has been cancelled, her mother is spending a lot of time with her new Japanese student, Jess can't seem to catch a break!

I love how just when things look like they couldn't really get any worse for Jess, they do.

Maybe that speaks more about my sick sense of humor, but still it's so great to read

how Jess tries to deal with everything.

As far as the story in this book goes, it was okay...

I didn't love it quite as much as the first two, and at points i did

find myself wondering whether the series needed to be a trilogy, or whether it would

have been better as a duology...who knows!

All the way through the book i just wanted Jess to march round to Fred's house

and find out what really happened, and sort everything out.

Of course that didn't happen.

When the pair finally talked about everything, it felt incredibly rushed.

I think i would have preferred to have more talking it through time and maybe cut

down on the 'spend time with Ben, oh no Fred has seen and now thinks something's going on' time....

However, i still enjoyed the book and thought it was a nice little ending to Jess' story.

3/5

Meghan xx